why is the ocean salty, and how did it get that way?

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why is the ocean salty, and how did it get that way?

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Water rains down then flows downstream towards the ocean. While it flows across the land it takes with it whatever it can. Salt and other minerals are in the ground and get swept away by the flowing water.

Now over millions of years the water kept getting evaporated in the ocean leaving all the minerals behind and falling as rain and flowing as a river taking new minerals to the ocean. So over time the minerals got more and more and more and now the ocean is salty